From Zacks: The financial world is seeing its hottest streak with the best start in many years, fueled by skyrocketing U.S. markets. The surge came despite global trade fears, political instability in Washington and geopolitical tensions. NYSE:XLK January 28, 2018 6:56am

From Jordan Roy-Byrne: Gold and gold stocks have enjoyed an excellent rebound since their December lows. Over the past six weeks Gold rebounded from a low of $1238 all the way to $1365 in recent days. NYSE:GLD January 28, 2018 6:48am

From Tom Kool: Oil prices rose last week on the back of a weakening dollar - thanks to comments from the U.S. Treasury Secretary supporting a weaker greenback - and ongoing declines in U.S. inventories. NYSE:USO January 28, 2018 6:41am

From Invesco: 2017 marked only the second time in the last eight years that international markets outperformed the US, with the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex-US returning 27.19%, and the S&P 500 Index returning 21.83%.1NYSE:EFA January 27, 2018 6:35am

From BlackRock: Rick Reider and Russ Koesterich argue that the recently enacted U.S. tax cut and an evolving monetary policy backdrop provides both greater clarity on expected increases in volatility and underscores the need to remain flexible and opportunistic in allocation NYSE:IVV January 27, 2018 6:26am

From Larry McMillan: The superlatives that are being used to describe this market are well-deserved. S&P 500 (SPY) has advanced so fast that there really isn't any support, unless you want to declare the low of the "half-day" correction at 2825 a minor support area. NYSE:SPY January 26, 2018 4:38pm